Example sentences of "have many [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles has many of the powers of a king , particularly in the Queen 's absence , and to a diminishing extent so do the other princes , princesses and minor royalty , at further removes from the throne . |
| 2 | Her own glass has many of the merits of the historic Arts and Crafts stained glass artists , such as Harry Clarke and Wilhelma Geddes , whom she greatly admires . |
| 3 | Although youth work has many of the functions of social work , it is primarily an education service . |
| 4 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 5 | It has many of the characteristics of a great ecclesiastical building ; it has vast arches , void spaces , coloured lights , and above all , it has recurrence of ritual . |
| 6 | The Commission has many of the characteristics of an international administrative authority and is the organ through which the governments act in all matters to do with the concession . |
| 7 | Gambling has many of the characteristics of drug taking — a euphoric high , and a craving in the addict . |
| 8 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 9 | More advanced is creative thought which also has many of the attributes of purposive thought . |
| 10 | Micro Focus decided to implement the object-oriented paradigm in a product that will have many of the features of the completed standard and that will become fully ANSI-compliant when the standard emerges . |
| 11 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | On the face of it , the market appears to have many of the features of a contestable market , that is , one where competitive conditions are maintained regardless of the market structure , due to the threat of new entry . |
| 13 | Certainly he had many of the qualities of a Sturt or a Leichhardt : he was energetic and determined , hardy and resilient , and emboldened by an overwhelming sense of curiosity . |
| 14 | He had many of the qualities of an inspiring leader ; for he combined a keen intellect with an ability to speak from the heart ; and over and above that the power to make up his mind and to decide . |
| 15 | The wartime state had many of the characteristics of the ‘ welfare state ’ , which is popularly regarded as having been created after the war . |
| 16 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 17 | It still had many of the characteristics of a lounge — cluttered bookshelves took up one wall of the room . |
| 18 | A deme like Sounion or Thorikos had many of the attributes of a city-state : there were deme liturgies : Michel Recueil d'inscriptions grecques no. 15 1 , from Aixoneis ( liturgies were the arrangements by which individuals financed the cultural life , and even the military defence , of their communities — a blend of self-advertisement and taxation ) . |
| 19 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 20 | It also had many of the features of a private club , operated and run for the benefit of its members . |
| 21 | These are of two main kinds : algae known as diatoms , and flagellates , which have many of the qualities of single-celled animals . |
| 22 | The first is that the conservation policies themselves still have many of the assumptions of the colonial model . |
| 23 | There is the added complication here that , following financial delegation , the governors of the school have many of the rights of an employer previously resting with the Local Authority . |
| 24 | Non-specific urethritis ( NSU ) , non-gonococcal urethritis ( NGU ) , post-gonococcal urethritis ( PGU ) , and non-specific genital infection ( NSGI ) all refer to genital conditions which have many of the characteristics of sexually transmitted diseases and yet defy accurate categorization in terms of their aetiology . |
| 25 | injunctions of general application have many of the characteristics of quasi-criminal offences tailor-made by individual judges to meet the facts of a particular case . |
| 26 | These have many of the characteristics of bonds . |